Example sentences of "might prove a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem then becomes that when the puritan literature of the early seventeenth century is examined , the seeds of what might prove a flowering of science are difficult to find . |
| 2 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 3 | But she had known that , while she looked back in wonder across a million years , his mind on the minute scrape of putty from the heel of the suspect 's shoe , the trace which might prove a man was a rapist or a murderer . |
| 4 | On the subject of the Lions , Finlay Calder wondered whether it might prove a mistake taking both Wade Dooley and Peter Winterbottom to New Zealand as he considered them to be past their best . |
| 5 | To many , internment has its attractions but , put into practice , it might prove a short-term expedient that would soon run out of steam . |
| 6 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 7 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 8 | We were , however , not encouraged to fraternise , as our Establishment considered that the Yanks , being naïvely and pressingly inquisitive , and perhaps not possessing an inherited sense of the paramount importance of secrecy in wartime , might prove a security risk . |